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Designed products surround us all and range from bus tickets to buildings. One of the primary considerations in all fields of design is ‘usability’ and, increasingly, the phenomenon of ‘user-centred design’. This can focus on physical attributes of products but increasingly it depends on an understanding of our cognitive abilities required to operate even simple products. All people studying this course will have some experience of designs that are not usable (perhaps mobile phones or

FACTBOX - SolarCity IPO finally sees light of day Dec 13 - SolarCity's IPO has had a difficult journey to the Nasdaq. Here are the top facts behind the launch of the U.S.' number one installer of residential solar panels.Author(s): No creator set

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Stephen Colbert | "America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't" The uncut interview of Stephen Colbert's visit to Google's New York office. You can find Stephen's book on Google Play here: http://goo.gl/Jyujo .
America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't is more of a coffee-table book, with large color pictures, and chapter photos that require the use of included 3-D glasses. It falls somewhere between I Am America and the Daily Show faux-textbooks America (The Book) and Earth (The Book), which used that organizing principle to their advantageAuthor(s): No creator set

Venus - Death of a Planet Watch this updated full res 1080p version of our classic show. Why did Earth thrive and our sister planet, Venus, died? From the fires of a sun's birth... twin planets emerged. Then their paths diverged. Nature draped one world in the greens and blues of life. While enveloping the other in acid clouds... high heat... and volcanic flows. Why did Venus take such a disastrous turn? (25:06)

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Chengdu's Open-Air Market We start our tour where every good cook starts: at the market. In this case, a neighborhood open-air market in Chengdu, the lively capital of Sichuan province. Fuchsia Dunlop will guide us through the market and introduce us to the robust seasonings that distinguish the local food and to the abundant fresh produce at the heart of the wholesome Sichuan diet.
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Ancient soil study finds Jurassic ecosystems were similar to modern SMU study finds Jurassic ecosystems were similar to modern: animals flourish among lush plants.
In modern ecosystems, it's widely known that animals flourish in regions where the climate and landscape produce lush vegetation.
A new study set out to discover whether that same relationship held true 150 million years ago during the Late Jurassic when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
"The assumption has been that ancient ecosystems worked just like our modern ecosystems," said paleontologist and leadAuthor(s): No creator set

Anna Baggoley - The Cranfield Australian Alumni Scholarship One of our Australian Full-time MBA students, winner of the Australian Alumni Scholarship, describes why she chose The Cranfield Full-time MBA and also how the Cranfield Australian Scholarship Foundation supported her through the application process and beyond.Author(s): No creator set